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ArticleMolecular therapy. Methods & clinical development2024

Treating late-onset Tay Sachs disease: Brain delivery with a dual trojan horse protein.

Esther Osher, Yossi Anis, Ruth Singer-Shapiro, Nataly Urshanski, Tamar Unger, Shira Albeck, Oren Bogin, Gary Weisinger, Fortune Kohen, Avi Valevski and 8 more

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Article in Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Neurodegenerative Diseases in Children: A Comprehensive Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  3. New Trends in Brain Shuttle Peptides.Molecular pharmaceutics · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Esther OsherThe Sagol Center for Epigenetics and Institute of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Hypertension, Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Yossi AnisThe Sagol Center for Epigenetics and Institute of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Hypertension, Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Ruth Singer-ShapiroThe Sagol Center for Epigenetics and Institute of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Hypertension, Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Nataly UrshanskiThe Sagol Center for Epigenetics and Institute of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Hypertension, Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Tamar UngerDepartment of Structural Proteomics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Shira AlbeckDepartment of Structural Proteomics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Oren BoginThe Sagol Center for Epigenetics and Institute of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Hypertension, Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Gary WeisingerThe Sagol Center for Epigenetics and Institute of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Hypertension, Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Fortune KohenDepartment of Immunology and Regenerative Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Avi ValevskiGeha Mental Health Center, Petach-Tikva, Israel.
Aviva Fattal-ValevskiPediatric Neurology Unit, Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Liora SagiPediatric Neurology Unit, Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Michal WeitmanThe Chemistry Department, Bar Ian University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Yulia ShenbergerThe Chemistry Department, Bar Ian University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Nadav SagivThe Sagol Center for Epigenetics and Institute of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Hypertension, Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Ruth NavonDepartment of Human Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Meir WilchekDepartment of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Naftali SternThe Sagol Center for Epigenetics and Institute of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Hypertension, Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tay-Sachs (TS) disease is a neurodegenerative disease resulting from mutations in the gene encoding the α-subunit (HEXA) of lysosomal β-hexosaminidase A (HexA). We report that (1) recombinant HEXA alone increased HexA activity and decreased GM2 content in human TS glial cells and peripheral mononuclear blood cells; 2) a recombinant chimeric protein composed of HEXA linked to two blood-brain barrier (BBB) entry elements, a transferrin receptor binding sequence and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor, associates with HEXB

Indexed as

blood-brain barrierenzyme replacement therapyGM2 gangliosideHexAHEXAHEXBlate-onset Tay-Sachslysosomal diseaseβ-hexosaminidase A

Identifiers

PMID39211733
PMCPMC11357852

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